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Anthony M. Cook edited this page Sep 23, 2016
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Welcome to the blacklight wiki!
- Operations are the building blocks of a blacklight program.
- Operations Cheatsheet
- Meet the Stacks - An introduction to the stacks in blacklight.
- Report bugs on Github Issues.
- The Roadmap is right here on the Wiki.
- The Trello Board tracks progress.
- If you want to contribute, check out the Contributor Agreement and other contributing info.
The blacklight Virtual Machine is a type-safe high-level stack-based abstract computing machine with concurrency and prototype primitives.
The BLVM is not decended from any other VM specification yet has some superficial similarities to the Java Virtual Machine and the BEAM VM due to having some common goals.
blacklight at its core is a virtual machine and the blacklight Programming Language is like the assembly language for that virtual machine that mirrors the underlying semantics and instructions as closely as possible.
Used standalone it is very similar to concatenative languages like Factor, Postscript, and most notably Forth.